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Day Two of the Ontario Land Tribunal hearing regarding 140 Glen Echo Drive in underway. The OLT no longer allows the public to recieve documents during hearings - Ontario's Auditor General has publicly called on the Tribunal to be transparent. #yhmcc Here's my Day One summary.

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There's a time to collaborate, like when Bloomberg & de Blasio admins rolled out good street policies & projects. Now is a time to fight, as Adams waters down, delays, cancels & now tries to rip out safe street designs Bravo to @transalt for getting to court so quickly & winning this round!! 🫡

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Which is another reason their use by students to do the work of research and writing for them is skills-annihilating. No, LLMs are NOT just like calculators, a simple tool that can be used well or not. In math you still have to show your work. 1/n

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A new study says climate change has tripled the frequency of atmospheric wave events linked to extreme summer weather in the last 75 years.

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Strongly endorse — 💯.

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Check out @pattybikes.com . This is the energy we need!

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going to keep saying: a society that would like to maintain its basic functions has really got to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by people in positions of authority

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The subway is not scary. Literal children ride it millions of times every day. Fascists and bigots lie about it constantly and have for years because they’re trying to destroy NYC and our subway, and most things wrong with the subway can be traced to their attacks resulting in its underfunding.

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In layman's terms 👉 We have THREE years before hitting the "do not hit" line of 1.5C. 👉 We hit 2C around 2050. Past that, things get really nasty for billions of people.

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The only reason Republicans have a reputation as "fiscal hawks" is that the press refuses to tell the public basic facts about what they do when they are in office.

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EXCELLENT NEWS: EU launches €1B auction to electrify industrial heat: ⚡️Heat pumps, electric boilers, induction/plasma heating, and more. ⛔️ No hydrogen or biomass. 💶 Lowest subsidy per ton CO₂ wins. 💪 Big step for industrial decarbonization! climate.ec.europa.eu/news-your-vo...

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Undocumented immigrants can't vote. They don't vote for Democrats because they can't vote. Democrats don't look the other way to let them into the country for votes, because, again: they can't vote. If you are a news org and people tell you otherwise, it's a lie, and you should call it that.

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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

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Wild how the Fed chair saying that entire regions of the United States won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

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It's wild that in 1984 Peter Kent narrated a CBC documentary that predicted this exact scenario. 30 years later he'd pull Canada out of Kyoto protocol as Harper's Environment Minister. #ClimateEmergency www.cbc.ca/news/science...

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It feels like a lifetime ago, but I still remember way back when the United States Congress put a universal free school meals policy in place from sea to shining sea. This was from 2020 to 2022

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Does anything in this picture say, "federal agents making a lawful arrest?" Perhaps they identified themselves. But when did it go out of fashion for law enforcement to look like law enforcement?

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Erskine-Smith seems like the only sane voice in the Liberal caucus right now. His reminder that a Poilievre government empowered by this bill would be a disaster is a fundamentally important one.

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it's sort of incredible how US standards have lead to scope and cost creep over basically every other country on earth. larger, more expensive, lower quality, poorer outcomes. this is true for transit infrastructure. for elevators. for housing. even fire apparatuses. seems problematic.

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Because appeasement works, eh?

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"halting enrollments in the National Flood Insurance Program"

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Seems important: All ('IPCC') CMIP6 models are completely unable to reproduce what NASA satellites observed! The rate of global warming (starting with Earth's Energy Imbalance and now surface air temperature) has more than doubled!

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"Renewable power like solar and onshore wind is the least expensive and quickest power generation source to deploy in the United States, even without government subsidies" Least expensive. Quickest. Without government subsidies. I'd bet on that combo.

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Zero points for BBC failing to mention (or editors scrubbed references to) #climatechange in these reports Mediterranean octopus "decimating the crab fishery" in UK waters as they proliferate "due to milder winters," hm why 🤔 & a 'record' UK haul last week: www.bbc.com/news/article... "Invasion":

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Travelling through Toronto, what's your mode of transportation? If you have some additional time, take a deeper dive via @jamaps.bsky.social, Muhammad Khalis and Bin Samion at the @uoftcities.bsky.social schoolofcities.github.io/transportati...

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Yep. Mandatory vaccinations. Only actual legit medical exemptions (not some smooth-brained goofball claiming they can’t have vaccines because they believe in, I dunno, sky gods?). If you want to participate in anything that receives public funding (like school), you have to be vaccinated.

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Capital v. capital. It's not a monolith.

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I seem to recall it’s a bad idea for a head of state to piss off their military.

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. Why taking apart buildings piece by piece is a climate solution deconstruction = materials can be mined for reusable materials Find out more: www.opb.org/article/2025/06... #ClimateAction

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As time grows short to debate the Liberal government's contentious Bill C-5, First Nations leaders tell AFN they have "substantive concerns." www.aptnnews.ca?p=272470

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NEW: The Kananaskis Wildfire Charter is 536 words long. None of them are “climate change."

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"No, imagery of ancient tree stumps at the edge of a receding glacier does not refute the fact that global mean surface temperatures were lower throughout the Holocene than present." @andrewdessler.com open.substack.com/pub/thetrade...

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This would be a world-historical tragedy.

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I am so so tired. It's votes like this that make me so cynical of local politics and want to burn it all down. #yeg #yegcc

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How exactly is this helping to keep the border ‘safe’?

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”According to Dam Removal Europe, Finland dismantled a record 138 river barriers last year, leading the continent in efforts to free up rivers for migratory fish and other wildlife.” #RestoreNature #Biodiversity 🐟 yle.fi/a/74-2016201...

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“They're missing the whole point in that we're seeing more fires, a longer fire season, more intense fires, more severe fires, because the climate is changing due to human activities,” said fire expert Mike Flannigan. “It's a serious omission, and that's being very polite.”

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Exactly as I said after the blackout: voltage regulation was issue, not a lack of spinning inertia, as so many quickly speculated (or asserted). It was an off peak spring day, plenty of cheap solar available, and the grid operator cut it too close, failed to commit sufficient voltage regulation.🔌💡

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oh hey a father's day gift to me featuring some of my favorite people, projects, and city

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This talk provides insight into the design, detailing and construction process for a Hamilton-based project that has recently been Passive House certified. It is believed to be one of North America's first certified volumetric modular Passive House projects. #passivehouse youtu.be/6r0EqK21rro?...

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NYSERDA's Buildings of Excellence awards ceremony is one day away! Who will be the award winners? Watch live tomorrow AIA NewYork. This $75 million competition showcases efficient/affordable buildings setting the standard for our low-carbon future. passivehouseaccelerator.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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There is nothing like visiting a Passivhaus to feel the benefits firsthand... and even better if you can stay in one! Passivhaus holiday accommodation offers a chance to experience Passivhaus comfort, efficiency, peace & air quality. We visited Warksburn Old Church: www.passivhaustrust....

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Why do politicians always underestimate public support for climate action? Is it state capture by fossil fuel companies? Something less insidious?

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Update on Indigenous opposition to proposed forestry changes under Quebec’s Bill 97 Hear more on APTN News Brief:

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